(Make sure to adjust the Python version and path structure to match your operating system and environment). Method 3: Define a Global Virtual Environment Folder
Pylance defaults to your system Python or a globally visible interpreter. Poetry’s virtual environment is hidden away. Unless you explicitly tell VS Code and the Pylance extension, " Hey, the interpreter for this folder is buried inside Poetry’s cache directory, " Pylance will scan the wrong site-packages. It sees none of your installed dependencies, and thus reports missing imports .
Open the VS Code Command Palette ( Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd+Shift+P on Mac). Type and select . pylance missing imports poetry link
If you are using a VS Code multi-root workspace, the .vscode/settings.json for each root must explicitly point to the Poetry interpreter. Use $workspaceFolder:. in paths.
: Type Python: Select Interpreter and select it. (Make sure to adjust the Python version and
: Press F1 , type Developer: Reload Window , and hit Enter to force Pylance to rescan your environment.
Once you have linked the two, you regain the full power of Pylance: Go to Definition, auto-imports, type checking, and refactoring—all while enjoying Poetry’s bulletproof dependency management. Unless you explicitly tell VS Code and the
Open the Command Palette in VS Code ( Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P ). Search for and select .
The best long-term solution is : configuring Poetry to create the virtual environment inside your project as .venv . This makes your project self-contained, lets VS Code and Pylance auto-detect everything, and eliminates "missing imports" warnings forever.
But when you open your .py file, you see it: yellow squiggles under your import statements. Hovering over them reveals the dreaded message: "Import 'requests' could not be resolved" or "Pylance(reportMissingImports)."